Biodynamic three-folding: a picture of biodynamic plant-life and its social implications

摘要

The Demeter Logo is intriguing...but what does it mean? It can be symbolically considered in several different ways. If you really ponder on its metaphor for plant growth, we notice right away that the plant lives and thrives between the two cosmic poles of the sun and the moon, and finds its true form in its rootedness on the earth, the leaves bringing the necessary balance between cosmic and earthly forces. There is perhaps a relevant SOCIAL metaphor as well: between the pull of the sun and the moon lives the "plant" of Biodynamics. It is rooted in the thoughts of Rudolf Steiner and manifests on the earth as stem, leaf and blossom.